Watcher.Guru: We are currently unable to confirm the method of hacking and have contacted X officials

Odaily Planet Daily News Watcher.Guru posted on the X platform that its account was hacked today. Two weeks ago, the team suspected that someone tried to hack into the account and sent a message to X employees to remind them. According to his description, on March 5, a Telegram user sent him a link to an X article. The link was the official domain name of X, but it contained an abnormal path, which was suspected to be a social engineering attack. Although the team did not find obvious risks at the time, it still sent a message to X's network security director @cstanley, but received no reply. At 10:05 Beijing time on March 21, Watcher.Guru discovered that his account had been posted without authorization and deleted it within a few minutes. At the same time, he logged out of all devices and reset his password. However, because his "JUST IN" or "BREAKING" tweets are automatically synchronized to social platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, and Discord, the relevant content has been automatically forwarded. Watcher.Guru said it could not confirm whether the hack was caused by this specific link, but a similar incident recently occurred to db (@tier10k). In addition, his account has 2FA enabled, there are no connected applications, and no API tokens have been detected to be used to publish content. At present, Watcher.Guru is still investigating the specific method of intrusion and has contacted X officials for further clarification.